By Ralph Jennings TAIPEI (Reuters) - When Japan's top-ranked sumo wrestler
Asashoryu walked into a reception to kick off a sumo tournament
in Taiwan, guests rushed to take his photo and mobbed his
dinner table to get autographs.

By Teruaki Ueno TOKYO (Reuters) - The granddaughter of wartime Prime
Minister Hideki Tojo said on Friday a Tokyo war shrine should
keep honoring war criminals and urged Japan's emperor to visit
there to thank those who had died for their country.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's relations with Japan would
remain at low ebb as long as Japanese leaders continued
visiting a Tokyo shrine for war dead, a senior Chinese diplomat
said on Sunday, driving home Beijing's displeasure.

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Wednesday called a visit
by Japan's prime minister to a Tokyo war shrine "a grave
insult," in its first official reaction to the pilgrimage that
enraged Seoul and Beijing.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police were investigating a
possible arson attack at the office of a senior lawmaker known
for his outspoken opposition to Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi's visits to a controversial war shrine, a spokesman
said on Wednesday.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid his respects at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Tuesday, the anniversary of his country's World War Two surrender, defying warnings from China and South Korea not to go.

By Teruaki Ueno and Chisa Fujioka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
paid his respects at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on
Tuesday, the anniversary of his country's World War Two
surrender, defying warnings from China and South Korea not to
go.

By Linda Sieg and Chisa Fujioka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
paid his respects at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on
Tuesday, the anniversary of his country's World War Two
surrender, defying warnings from China and South Korea not to
go.

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